Preferred Name: Santiago

Last Name: Ossa

Degree String (Type, Year): (MS '23)

Job Title: President

Company Name: Safari Ventures, LLC

Bio: Nelson Koen has more than 34 years of experience in Real Estate Development, Finance and Construction Management. Nelson holds a Civil Engineering degree and MBA (both from the Andres Bello University in Venezuela) and a Masters in Construction Management from Stanford University. He has been a managing partner in multiple real estate projects. Nelson is currently the President of a Real Estate Fund focused on acquiring and selling distressed properties in the Bay Area. Until January of 2010 he was the Director of Land Development at O'Brien Group a Real Estate Developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nelson has managed consultants and subcontractors from the design, value engineering and pre-construction phases to construction and project close out. He was the VP at Constructora Cohen (in Caracas, Venezuela) for 18 years, handling more than 14 projects and 3 million square feet of residential, retail and mixed used projects. Nelson is also a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University since 2004, where he tea